[Qgis-developer] Virtual geom column

kimaidou kimaidou at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 06:41:02 PST 2015


+ 1 for this feature, if possible.
Perhaps it would be necessary to define the excepted geometry type so that
QGIS knows in advance the geometry type.

2015-01-22 14:16 GMT+01:00 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>:

> Hi,
>
> Now that we have virtual columns in QGIS, I wonder if we could improve
> this towards virtual geom columns. Often, there is point (x/y, lat/lon)
> data in some non-GIS database and you only have read-only access. Rather
> than copying this data to some other database/format it would be nice being
> able to visualize the data on-the-fly.
>
> How complicated would it be to introduce such a virtual geom column in a
> future QGIS version?
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
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